“How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae” Procedural Writing Activity 

Modeled writing can be a valuable teaching tool when exploring a new text type with your students. Thankfully, Teach Starter’s digital writing activities make modeled writing easy! Just project the resource onto your interactive screen and work through the slides in sequential order.

This digital procedural writing activity poses the following real-life scenario: 

The local ice cream shop is in need of an ice cream sundae specialist to help teach new staff members how to make sundaes! Use your procedural writing skills to break down the process into simple steps. 

This interactive procedural writing activity contains the following slides:

1. Ice Cream Sundae Brainstorm – Use the boxes to brainstorm ideas by typing the basic steps of making an ice cream sundae.
2. Ingredients and Materials – Move the ingredients and equipment that are needed to make an ice cream sundae from the selection provided.
3. Steps for Making an Ice Cream Sundae – Move the sundae-making images to correctly order the steps in the table provided.
4. Instructions for Steps 1 to 6 – Using the image on each slide as a guide, type a simple description of each step in the box provided. 
5. Procedure Draft – Use the text structure scaffold on the slide to type a draft procedure for making an ice cream sundae.
6. How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae – Type a completed procedure entitled “How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae” in the blank slide.
7. Checklist – Use the checklist to ensure that the completed text contains all the necessary features.

Test Out This “How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae” Procedure

Once your students have completed this “How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae” procedural writing activity, there’s only one thing left to do… check that it works!

Over a weekend, ask your students to make an ice cream sundae at home by following the steps in the procedure they wrote in the digital resource. When they return to school, you might ask:

• Was the procedure easy to follow? Why or why not?
• Did the ice cream sundae turn out the way you thought it would?
• How could you make the procedure even easier for the reader to follow?

Download To Explore How to Write a Procedure

Use the Download button to access the Google Slides file. You will be prompted to make a copy of it before accessing it.

Please note that this resource functions in Edit mode only, not in Presentation mode.

This resource was created by Lindsay Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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